Dag Nikolaus Hasse: What is European?, Kartoniert / Broschiert
What is European?
- On Overcoming Colonial and Romantic Modes of Thought
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- Verlag:
- Amsterdam University Press, 09/2025
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9789048571277
- Artikelnummer:
- 12287347
- Umfang:
- 128 Seiten
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 4.9.2025
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
It is common to define Europe by its democratic, scientific, religious, and cultural traditions. But in What is European? , Dag Nikolaus Hasse argues that the search for Europe's essence has taken a troubling turn. He shows that many traditional ideas about Europe are culturally one-sided and historically and geographically distorted, and calls for a decolonisation and deromanticisation of the discourse on Europe.
The book promotes an inclusive vision of Europe that reflects its long history of multiethnic cities, offers a cultural home to a wider range of people across the continent, and extends attention and respect to other continents, thus laying a more respectful foundation for shaping the future together.
At the same time, Hasse demonstrates that overcoming colonial ways of thinking does not and should not result in anti-Europeanism. Criticising European arrogance may well go hand in hand with feeling culturally at home in other traditions of Europe. For this, it does not matter whether one is a resident of the European continent or not. There is no privileged access to European culture or to the culture of any other continent.
